 In May 2019, as reported by The New York Times, executives from the Washington, D.C. office, including office president Lisa Ross and former Trump White House deputy press secretary, Lindsay Walters, went to Florida to present the pitch.On August 5, 2019, a predominantly Jewish organization called “Never Again” protested outside GEO Group’s Century City headquarters, shutting down the building for five hours while hoisting a giant banner that read “GEO Group runs concentration camps for ICE.#Never Again.”
Activists charged the largest private for-profit detention contractor with detaining immigrants under inhumane conditions while complying with the Trump administration’s family separation policy.